In Mourning for a Dog.
Gabriel d’Annunzio is mourning his pet greyhound, said a Florence telegram recently. The famous poet has written an elegy on the departed and will erect a marble monument to its memory.
The poet’s pet, it must be admitted, was an inveterate poultry killer, and no chickens in the neighbourhood of the splendid d’Annunzio villa were safe from it.
At last the, marauder was killed by an indignant peasant named Volpe, whose chickens it had slaughtered. The poet promptly brought an action against Volpe. The case filled the Florence courthouse with fashionable literary and artistic people. D’Annunzio engaged the leading advocates, who waxed eloquent over the grief of the poet at the loss of his greyhound. D’Annunzio, in tear-broken accents, told the court that the date when the dog was killed would remain graven on his heart, like “Calais” on the heart of Queen Mary.
The dog-killer - received the nominal penalty of ten days’ imprisonment ■■
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3737, 29 December 1906, Page 2
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159In Mourning for a Dog. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3737, 29 December 1906, Page 2
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